Lead Front-end Engineer

Job Overview

Here at Relativity we prioritize flexibility and work-life harmony. Our Hybrid work environment provides options tailored to your role and location, aiming to enhance engagement, connectivity, and productivity.

Join us to experience a culture of collaboration and innovation, where connecting in-person adds value to our collective growth. Let's work together!

You will serve as a technical liaison between your team and other internal and external development teams to identify and resolve dependencies, to identify, improve, and apply software engineering best practices and processes, and to identify and mitigate risks to the on-time delivery of software.

The Case Strategy Team

Our team owns the Case Strategy product. Case Strategy is a suite of applications which empowers case teams to construct winning cases by quickly and easily defining, validating, and presenting their case strategy, while benefitting from a seamless integration into Relativity and all its features. Case Strategy consists of aiR for Case Strategy and Transcripts applications. Air for Case Strategy assists users in collecting, organizing, and analyzing facts, issues, organizations, people, interview questions and documents. Transcripts application gives users the ability to upload, review, code, and annotate Transcript files in Relativity.Job Description and Requirements

The Lead Front-end Software Engineer at Relativity plays a crucial role in the product development team, driving the direction of frontend architecture, mentoring developers, and ensuring the overall quality and performance of the user interface.

The Lead Front-end Software Engineer is responsible for delivering results for the product development department by: 

• Work with management to set and communicate team goals and vision aligned to business requirements. 
• Ensure the team stays focused and delivers against the goals, adapting to changing business requirements. 
• Provide input into system software architecture development and future initiatives by working with Staff, Principal Engineers, and Architects as required. 
• Drive technical direction, planning, and effective frontend solutions in enterprise class system.  
• Specify non-functional software requirements and analyze all requirements to determine design feasibility within time and cost constraints to deliver quality software. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically about complex issues. 
• Lead and empower team to apply key design patterns, coding best practices, and methodologies.  
• Lead the test of software with traceability back to requirements emphasizing the practice of Test-Driven Design and the use of autonomous frameworks and Continuous Integration 
• Exemplify Core Values and be a role model.  Motivate team through changes and failures. 
• Collaborate with management to mentor team members and guide development growth 
• Drive a culture of one global department, one mission. 

Required Technical Skills and Experience 

• Deep understanding of semantic HTML and modern CSS, including pre-processors like SASS or LESS. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6+ features and familiarity with TypeScript for large projects. 
• Extensive experience with modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries like React, Angular, Vue.js, Webpack 5. In-depth knowledge of state management libraries (like Redux, MobX, Vuex) is also important. 
• Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL and knowledge of asynchronous programming, including Promises and async/await. Working mocks, mock API (for local developments or faster testing). 
• Experience in creating microfrontends or modular, dynamic UI architectures. 
• Experience with design systems like MaterialUI, Bootstrap or similar. 
• Experience in creating responsive designs that work across a wide range of devices and screen sizes. 
• Experience in frontend unit testing with frameworks like Jest, Karma and end-to-end testing with Cypress or Playwright. 
• Understanding of browser differences and experience with tools for cross-browser testing. 
• Techniques for optimizing frontend performance, including lazy loading, code splitting, content delivery networks, and image optimization. 
• Strong understanding of web accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and best practices. 

Required Experience 

• 5 - 7+ years of experience in frontend development, with at least 2-3 years in a lead role. 
• 3 - 5+ years of experience in software development using C# and .Net, or related object-oriented programming languages. 
• Experience developing scalable solutions in Azure or other cloud platforms and building observable systems with SLA and SLOs defined. 
• Experience working on large-scale web applications or enterprise platforms. 
• Experience in leading projects from conception through to delivery. 
• A strong portfolio showcasing a range of projects, particularly those where the candidate played a lead role in the frontend development. 

Desirable Additional Skills and Experience 

• Understanding of backend technologies (.Net, Node.js, Python, etc.) to facilitate better collaboration with backend teams. 
• Experience or strong understanding of UI/UX principles can be an additional advantage. 
• Familiarity with AI-driven solutions in UI/UX, such as AI-assisted user interactions, personalization, generative design tools, or adaptive interfaces. 
• AI Integration in frontend, including hands-on experience integrating chatbots, recommendation systems, or computer vision models into UI/UX workflows. 

Relativity is a diverse workplace with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify.

Benefit Highlights:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Flexible work arrangements
• Two, week-long company breaks per year
• Unlimited time off
• Long-term incentive program
• Training investment program

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:

232 000 and 348 000PLNThe final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.